One Badass Taurus...

[nik96]

This was taken from www.shoforum.com . It is an '89 Taurus SHO built to run at the salt flats. The motor is bored and destroked and fully built with big cams, ported heads, custom headers and exhaust and normally aspirated. Anyway, thought some of you might enjoy the sweet sound of this little screamin' 3.0. Probably want to skip to about 2:24 when he takes off.

Taurus does 159 mph!

vid link- http://s46.photobucket.com/albums/f136/saltsho/?action=view&current=SpeedTrials.flv

:rockon:

 

[simshahh]

mighta been a little better (minimal) if it were not just a dash shot...

 

[Duende]

Best looking Taurus I've ever seen...judging from the pic.

 

[kfrg]

Grandpa's flying!

 

[99boltsvt]

DAMN! The 3.0 was screamin!

 

[zx3focus]

159 mph. doesnt seem to amazing.

 

[BuckChoklit]

I believe that car makes the most horsepower out of the SHO 3.0 n/a. He's making somewhere around 318 fwhp and 290ish fwtq.

 

[Silver2003Cobra]

the SHO engine is one hell of a little screamer.. I had a 92 and it was a nice family car..

 

[simshahh]

the SHO engine is one hell of a little screamer.. I had a 92 and it was a nice family car..

they were YAMAHA motors correct?

 

[nik96]

they were YAMAHA motors correct?

Correct.

 

[nik96]

159 mph. doesnt seem to amazing.

For a taurus, not too bad. How fast does your 300+hp mustang go?

 

[EATONSRT]

I had my 03 L with light mods to 154 on GPS with roughly 900 rpms to go when i shut down. THATS impressive.

 

[Traveler]

Wasn't SHO motors, while a Yamaha engine, built by Cosworth?

 

[Orions96cobra]

the intake manifold was desinged by yamaha, not the entire engine.

 

[gomach1]

that thing was screamin, love it

 

[gomach1]

the intake manifold was desinged by yamaha, not the entire engine.

Exactly

 

[BelvedereGTX]

guy sounded like garry the retard on howard stern show. lmao

 

[nik96]

the intake manifold was desinged by yamaha, not the entire engine.

False. The entire engine was designed by Yamaha with Ford specifications. The intake, heads, and shortblock are all a Yamaha design. Ford originally sent Yamaha a Vulcan 3.0 block to adapt their design to but where told the crankshaft support would not hold up the RPM that the heads and valvetrain required. Ford then gave Yamaha the go-ahead to design the whole motor.

Your statement holds more truth in regards to the 3.4 V8 in the '96-'99 SHOs. The intake and heads where designed by Yamaha while the block was based on the 2.5 Ford duratech/cosworth. Ford also designed the rotating assy. and valvetrain.

 

[Ryan]

the intake manifold was desinged by yamaha, not the entire engine.

As Nik stated the 89-95 SHO motors were completely designed by Yamaha. Shipped complete from Japan to Atlanta to be installed into the cars. The 96-99 SHO engines, Yamaha only influenced/designed the heads & intake on it.

 

[gomach1]

^ nice info guys, never new that